Data Workstation 0.5d Released~ 21st June 2009

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First of all, I'd like to say that I have quite a few suggestions for a new, improved Data Changer , as I've been stuck with the Jiquera's old crappy Data Changer for over three years. EDIT!: By the way, the following suggestions all are improvements to better it from Jiquera's Data Changer, not what you should have to catch up with it (i just noticed that those types of suggestions are what all the other responders are making).

@Snorsorbet:
It's NOT a good way of learning DC, trust me ... I taught all of DC basics to myself just by using the Jiquera's DCer v1.4 three years ago with absolutely no outside help (this was before I found LF-EMPIRE) and it took forever! It took like five months of playing around with data from template and all the original characters just to figure out what the lying/picking_light frames meant and what they did. However, it took me only a couple weeks to figure out what itr/cpoint/opoint and all of its 'kinds' meant. Not only did the skip frames not help until after I finally learned all of the DC basics, but it made the learning process worse. The 'skip' tags always talked way over my head. It's like reading a book that's way advanced for you, cramming too much info at once up to the point where you just give up. Anyways enough of this long speech.

Onto Suggestions:

@Azriel:
First, I think you should not only have DC tutorials on there. You should have a technical terms glossary (I know that it took me forever to self-teach myself all those complicated terms ). Also, you should have some famous mod download links posted to give people move ideas, like what moves to create and what moves not to use/already taken (because obviously they're aiming to create a new character or mod an existing one).

You should host this new Data Changer on some famous website besides this one (like download.com) so that people who haven't found this fansite yet can have access to your new Data Changer. I remember I had to scroll down 12 pages of Google after searching "LF2 Hacking Program" before I found some Asian Korean Site that hosted Jiquera's DC v1.4 ! We don't want that to happen to your DC program, do we?

Thirdly, you should make the DCing algorithm possible to read R-LF2's files (I'm examining R-LF2 a lot right now, as it is the most famous LF2 mod out so far, in order to obtain some ideas for my current mod 'LFCL' right now, and I'm finding it quite annoying to have to open it with Rammichael's Data Changer first and deleting the symbols before opening with Jiquera's Data Changer and skipping to the lines I want to see). Actually, I think it can already read it. Never mind.....

Fourthly and finally, you should have a link somewhere in your program to LF-EMPIRE (for advertising purposes ).

Again, these are just suggestions. Please don't take them too seriously (at least, not up to the point where it seems that I'm insulting you ).

I know you spent a lot of time on this DC program, and I think that it is very promising and that you should keep up the good work .

~Solomon Leung